Why does FX's Fargo have a 1h13m airtime?
FX's new Fargo TV series airs from 10 PM to 11:13 PM, Eastern. Why? I'm positive they could trim enough from each episode to make it fit a normal one-hour timeslot, and I doubt it'd be too hard to extend it to 1h30m if trimming wasn't an option. Why give the show such an irregular timeslot?
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If you look at their entire schedule, they list Fargo as running back to back to back.
So, from the 10pm to 11:13 Saturday night time slot you have an episode of Fargo, then from 11:15p Saturday until 1 am Sunday, you have another episode. (It is not clear if it is an encore presentation or not).
Then again at 1 am, you have another slot for Fargo, only this one is limited to an hour.
So my supposition is that they are extending the time slots to get more advertising time/revenue, and the two shows together take up a 3 hour block.
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That only comes out to blocks of 2 and a half hours, not 3. I read the network execs allow them a lttle more time to tell the story each episode, due to each season being like a mini-series, ending on the season's last episode.
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